Bez says the show has solved his financial problemsBez says the show has solved his financial problemsOn this most depressing day of the year, Bez will be the only person who's woken up to a truly happy Monday after winning Celebrity Big Brother.

The former Happy Mondays dancer beat the bookies' favourite, teenage rapper Kenzie, to win the competition.

 

Sylvester Stallone's ex-wife, former model, Brigitte Nielsen came third in the show.

As he walked out of the house, the 40-year-old shouted: "Yeah man I'm coming at ya!" and announced the show had put his life back on track.

"I was in a great deal of trouble," he said.

"I was in a heap of s**t. Now I've bailed out and I'm forever grateful."

Bez, famed for his wacky dancing with the Happy Mondays, said the £50,000 prize money would go towards "pimping my ride" - and insisted he had not smuggled drugs into the house.

"At the end of the day I realise I was there for a reason, for my family and to get me out of this trouble and I couldn't ever bear the risk of losing the lot," he said.

"I had had these mad plans what I was going to do but at the end of the day I couldn't do it because this money I've got now means so much to me.

"I may be a bit of a drug addict, man, and I really thought 'I aint going to last this fortnight'.

"I was ill, I went through a rough patch."

He admitted he had bad financial problems and feared losing his house.

Bez got 54% of the vote to become the winner.

A total of £262,002 was raised for charity from the show from a total of 1,048,007 votes over the 18-day series.

Bookmakers William Hill were relieved Kenzie failed to win.

The odds had been as short as 1/5 on Kenzie winning when Hills closed the betting after fears that insider information was being leaked to the public.